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Factor, Eliza.
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Factor, Eliza -- Health.
Factor, Felix.
Autism in children -- United States -- Biography.
Children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Autistic children -- United States -- Family relationships.
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Factor, Eliza.
Factor, Eliza -- Health.
Factor, Felix.
Autism in children -- United States -- Biography.
Children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Autistic children -- United States -- Family relationships.
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Strange beauty : a portrait of my son / Eliza Factor.
by
Factor, Eliza.
Parallax Press, c2017.
Call #:
618.9285882 F142s
Subjects
Factor, Eliza
--
Health.
Factor, Felix.
Autism in
children
--
United
States
--
Biography.
Children
with disabilities
--
United
States
--
Biography.
Autistic
children
--
United
States
--
Family
relationships
.
ISBN:
9781941529720 (pbk.)
1941529720 (pbk.)
Description:
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her
family
were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community. This intimate,no-holds barredmemoir shares one
family
's experiences with a child who is both
autistic
and physically disabled. It is a story of infectious laughter, blood on the floor, intense physical conflict, and of two little girls growing up in the shadow of their charming and fitful brother. And it is the story of a mother and writer and the illuminating effect of imagining the world through the eyes of her beautiful, charismatic, and nonverbal son, Felix. Felix and his sisters inspire Eliza to start Extreme Kids, a community center that connects families with
children
with disabilities through the arts and play, andtransformhow she saw herself and the world. She writes of the joy this project brings her, as well as the disconnect of being lauded for helping others at the same time that she cannot help her own son. As Felix grows bigger and stronger, his assaults against himself grow more destructive. When his bruised limbs and face prompt Child Services to investigate the Factors for abuse, Eliza realizes how dangerous her home has become. Strange Beauty is a personal story, but it shines a light on the combustible conditions many families are living in at this moment. The
United
States
offers parents whose
children
are prone to violence very little help. That Eliza's story ends happily, with Felix thriving at Crotched Mountain School, is due more to luck than policy. There are few such schools and many such
children
. When
children
are violent, we fail to account for the internal and external pressures that lead to violence. This is both cruel and counterproductive, for people with disabilities have much to teachus,if we will only listen"--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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